1. By 2016, 65% of organizations' infrastructure investments will target
creation and expansion of 3rd Platform systems of engagement and
insight, rather than maintaining existing systems of record.

2. In the next two years, 25% of all large and mid-sized businesses will
confront significant power/cooling facilities mismatches with new IT
systems, limiting them to using less than 75% of their physical
datacenter space.

3. In the next two years, incompatible or immature IT asset management
practices will prevent 80% of organizations from being able to take full
advantage of converged and software defined IT solutions in their own
facilities.

4. By 2016, hyperscale datacenters will house more than 50% of raw
compute capacity and 70% of raw storage capacity worldwide, becoming the
primary consumers/adopters of new compute and storage technologies.

5. By 2017, 60% of the datacenter-based IT assets that organizations
rely on to conduct business and deliver services will be in colocation,
hosting, and cloud data centers.

6. Over the next two years, over 60% of companies will stop managing
most of their IT infrastructure, relying on advanced automation and
qualified service partners to boost efficiency and directly tie
datacenter spend to business value.

7. Over the next three years, 70% of large and mid-sized organizations
will initiate major network redesigns to better align inter-datacenter
and datacenter-to-edge data flows.

8. By 2018, third-party service providers will own a quarter of all IT
assets installed in organizations’ server rooms and closets, posing
major asset management and governance challenges.

9. By 2016, the top 20 providers of consumer and business as-a-service
solutions will deploy broad spectrum, multi-datacenter security
solutions.

10. By 2018, every organization in data-intensive industries will have
formal data ethics review processes and will publicize data control
policies.

"The key question for organizations is whether they have the insight,
capital, and commitment to design, build, and operate datacenters for
reliable and dynamic delivery of transaction, content serving,
archiving, and analytic capacity on time, with no delays and no excuses
to individuals and organizations around the world," said Richard
Villars, Vice President, Datacenter & Cloud Research at IDC. "For
many the answer will be 'no!' They will rely increasingly on third
parties to build, deploy, manage, and 'rent' IT capacity and store
important information."

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framework for evaluating IT initiatives in terms of their value to
business strategy now and in the foreseeable future. IDC's FutureScapes
are comprised of a set of decision imperatives designed to identify a
range of pending issues that CIOs and senior technology professionals
will confront within the typical three-year business planning cycle.

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